Friday, October 31st, 2014
Facebook has made it easier to access the social network through multiple layers of encryption and without disclosing your true location, by allowing direct access as a hidden service through Tor’s anonymity-focused browser.
Tor sometimes comes up against the security mechanisms of sites — such as Facebook and banking sites — that ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that suspicious activity has been identified on the Executive Office of the President (EOP) network.
The official, speaking to Reuters, said that mitigation efforts were ongoing, but declined to identify the exact nature of the problem.
"In the course of assessing ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Dell SecureWorks has updated its figures on the number of PCs infected by the awful CryptoWall ransom malware and the news isn’t good – the number of systems has spiked suddenly to 830,000.
The firm’s last statistic in late August was 625,000, itself a large number of infected systems, which means ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Microsoft has disclosed that a new zero-day vulnerability is present in Windows, and is exploited via Microsoft Office files. According to Microsoft Security Advistory 3010060, the vulnerability is present in all supported versions of Windows except Windows Server 2003.
The vulnerability (designated as CVE-2014-6352) is triggered by an attacker sending a specially ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
Federal officials warned companies Monday that hackers have stolen more than 500 million financial records over the past 12 months, essentially breaking into banks without ever entering a building.
"We're in a day when a person can commit about 15,000 bank robberies sitting in their basement," said Robert Anderson, executive assistant ...
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